linux-kernel - Re: [netfilter-core] [PATCH] netfilter: remove padding from struct xt

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Message-ID: <4946574F.5080107@trash.net>
Date:	Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:10:39 +0100
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Richard Kennedy <richard@....demon.co.uk>
CC:	coreteam@...filter.org, netfilter@...r.kernel.org,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Netfilter Development Mailinglist 
	<netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [netfilter-core] [PATCH] netfilter: remove padding from struct
 xt_match on 64bit	builds

Richard Kennedy wrote:
> reorder struct xt_match to remove 8 bytes of padding and make its size
> 128 bytes.
> 
> This saves a small amount of data space in each of the xt netfilter
> modules and fits xt_match in one 128 byte cache line.

Applied, thanks.
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